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Piper Park

Piper Park from directly overhead

Piper Park is a park in Michigan, at a recorded elevation of 257 m. Dixon Hall stands 332 m to the south-southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Horseshoe Bend Park, a park 0.3 miles away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
257 m

What to expect

Operated by
City of Battle Creek

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates42.32533, -85.16277

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Horseshoe Bend Park: 0.3 mi
  • Quaker Park: 0.7 mi
  • Walsh Field: 0.7 mi
  • Battle Creek Linear Park: 0.9 mi
  • Linear Park: 1.0 mi
Attractions: 45
  • Full Blast: 1.3 mi
  • 2nd Stream: 7.7 mi
  • Harmonia: 7.7 mi
  • Harmonia Again: 7.8 mi
  • 1st Stream: 7.8 mi
Museums: 18
Artworks: 15
  • Friendship Park Stone Marker: 1.0 mi
  • Sojourner Truth Memorial: 1.1 mi
  • The Creek: 1.1 mi
  • Compass Pole Monument: 1.3 mi
  • Wind-Driven Rotating Mobile: 1.3 mi
Historic sites: 11
Peaks: 5
Gardens: 4
Rest areas: 4
  • Battle Creek Rest Area: 5.1 mi
  • Turkeyville Rest Area 722: 8.7 mi
  • Marshall Rest Area: 13.0 mi
  • Galesburg Rest Area: 14.8 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Willard Beach: 3.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Piper Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dixon HallSSE 157°332 m16.1 mi
Jerusalem HillsE 79°297 m23.1 mi
Baird HillNW 319°294 m24.8 mi
Stony Point HillSSE 156°286 m17.9 mi
The HogbackNW 312°282 m15.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4519:1619:53
June solstice06:0520:3921:22
September equinox07:2919:0319:40
December solstice08:0716:2617:12

Local time (America/Detroit).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242636485969737164524030
Precip in1.61.21.72.93.73.43.43.43.23.62.11.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Battle Creek Kellogg AP, 4 mi away.

  • Oriental Beetle9 obs
  • Cooper's Hawk8 obs
  • Canada Goose7 obs
  • Monarch7 obs
  • Leopard Slug7 obs
  • Trumpeter Swan6 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel6 obs
  • common milkweed6 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/460943650

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